The Zero Culture

Imagine a reprise of jazz chord, a western classical structure & harmony, then an alaap scale of a raag… but all within a single thought. You may be forgiven to shout that can only be contrived. But, that is exactly what Jonathan Mayer’s musical brain computes

There is a recognizable hunger in Sarathy Korwar when meeting him or seeing him play live. It is a hunger of the kind you see in someone who wants to correct or restore something that has gone wrong in the world. In Cicadas, his last

He thinks of himself as the most un-Indian Indian or at least half of what is Indian from his mixed-heritage of Indian-Ugandan and Indian Jamaican parents, a heritage that has strung him with a double whammy of sickle cell and Thalasaemia, but not for a

The former artistic director at zerOclassikal is not new to breaking a few rules. After innovating a totally fresh take on the Veena, bringing an ensemble of three veenas to play together, she went ahead making a piece called ONE and touring it nationally. Initially